Data Wednesday: iOS & Android

Between Apple's Q2 earnings report and Google's Chrome/Android special event over the past two days, we got an updated look at the latest Android and iOS numbers around the world. Here's a quick overview:

Apple

iMessage went from 0 to 900 billion messages sent in one year and nine months. (source)

There have been 900k iOS apps created, $11 billion in developer earnings from iTunes paid out, and $2.4 billion in iTunes content sales to date. (source)

Total iPhone sales at 387.5M passed total iPod sales at 379M. (source)

iPhone US sales up 51% year on year and 66% in Japan. India was up 400%, Philippines up 140%. (source)

Apple sold 31.2M iPhones, a record for the June quarter, compared to 26M in the year-ago quarter. Apple also sold 14.6M iPads during the quarter, compared to 17M in the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 3.8 million Macs, compared to 4 million in the year-ago quarter. (source)

China has roughly as many iPhones as the USA and two times as many Android devices in the market. (source)

Google

There have been 70m Android tablet activations and 7m Nexus 7 activations worldwide. Nexus 7 is over 10% of Android tablets. (source)